The prince Li Heng has lived in the East Palace for a whole year. In June, he married Liangdi Zhang again. Zhang is understanding, charming and beautiful. Under her careful service, Li Heng's health is also like a day. In addition, after Wang Zhongsi was demoted, Li Longji was a little tolerant of him. Li Heng could occasionally participate in the decisions of military and national affairs. After savoring the sweetness of power, he gradually felt a hint of urgency to control the world.

Although Li Heng's situation has improved greatly, one thing still disappointed him, that is, his father still did not allow him to meet foreign ministers privately, and the ten places he gave him to meet foreign ministers still did not let go. Of course, Li Heng could not meet foreign ministers, but he could only be in Xingqing Palace.

At dusk, Li Heng was still referring to memorials in his study in Mingde Hall of the East Palace. From July, with the acquiescence of Li Longji, Li Linfu copied a copy of the foreign edict issued by the Secretariat every day and sent someone to Li Heng. Although he had no decision-making power, Li Heng could also understand the major events in the world.

The study room is simple and simple, with soft lighting. There is sandalwood lit in the corner of a large copper tripod in the corner of the house. The study room is very quiet. In addition to Li Heng, Li Heng's close eunuch Li Jingzhong stood by the wall. In addition, in a corner, there was a small case. Behind the case was a secretary of Chongwenguan. He was a serious old man about fifty years old. There were three of them taking turns to be on duty. The job was to record the prince's words and deeds in the East Palace, make the prince's daily life record, and finally hand it over to the History Museum for reserving it. In the future, it will be the basis for compiling Tang history.

The Prince's Daily Record is a top-secret information, which the Prince himself cannot see. Apart from the historian, only the third young prince who is responsible for the prince's education can see it. It is pointed out in time that the prince's shortcomings are also pointed out. In addition, the emperor also has the right to read the daily record. Therefore, the secretary-in-law has to copy a copy every day and hand it over to Li Longji, so that Li Longji can always grasp the prince's words and deeds.

This is actually a kind of glamorous surveillance, which made Li Heng's many secret matters rely on the trusted eunuch Li Jingzhong to complete. In the future, Li Heng would do the same to monitor his son, and his son would monitor his grandson again. In this cycle, the princes all rely on eunuchs, and to some extent became a driving force for eunuchs' autocracy in the middle Tang Dynasty. Of course, there are many causes of eunuchs' autocracy, so I will not elaborate on them here.

At this moment, Li Heng was reading a memorial sent by Yunnan prefect Zhang Qiantuo. Last year, the king of Nanzhao Piluoge passed away, and his eldest son Ge Luofeng took over as King of Yunnan. Unlike the old king, after Ge Luofeng succeeded to the throne, he rectified military affairs and was determined to reform, and repeatedly broke through the bottom line of the Tang court. Nanzhao's momentum was already established. Zhang Qiantuo pointed out in the memorial that if Nanzhao is not strictly controlled, once Tubo and Nanzhao form an alliance, Jiannan will be in danger!

Li Heng shook his head gently. Since his father transferred Yang Zhao as the governor of Yaozhou and the chief of Jiannan Jiedu Prefecture last year, Li Heng has understood that his father wanted to use Yang Zhao to solve the Nanzhao problem. He is really worried. Does Yang Zhao have this ability?

At this time, a guard came in and said, "Your Highness, General Li Qing'an of the Central Army of Anxi, asked for a meeting!"

Lee Heng was overjoyed, "Hurry up and announce that he comes in."

Li Qing'an came to see him as soon as he came back, which shows his loyalty to him. So far, Li Heng is quite satisfied with Qing'an, young and promising, and has made great contributions many times. Especially in this Longyou Battle, he is about to reach a high position, and this person will sooner or later become his right-hand man.

After a moment, Li Qing'an walked in, he half-kneeled and saluted, "I will meet the prince!"

"General Li, please get up quickly. Your injuries have not healed, so there is no need to be too polite."

Li Heng quickly helped Li Qing'an up and looked him up and down and said with a smile: "I am much more haggard. You performed really well in this Longyou Battle."

Li Qing'an sat down, he looked at Li Heng and smiled, "Your Highness has a much better complexion and is full of energy."

"Last year I was well recuperated and got up early to practice swords every day, so my health gradually improved."

The two of them exchanged a few words, and a palace maid brought two bowls of ginseng tea and stepped forward. Li Heng picked up one bowl and smiled and said, "Come on! You can drink one too. This is the best ginseng tribute from Silla. I will order someone to send you some to take care of your health later."

"Thank you for your concern."

Li Qingan picked up the bowl and sucked it slowly, but glanced at the secretary-in-law sitting in the corner of the wall from the corner. Li Heng knew it and gave Li Jingzhong a wink. Li Jingzhong immediately went out to bring a bowl of ginseng tea, and went up to hand it to the secretary-in-law and said, "Mr. Wang, please use ginseng tea!"

The secretary Lang was holding up his pen and writing: 'Anxi Li Qing'an pays homage to the prince and cares about the prince's body.' Suddenly, he saw a cup of ginseng tea coming, and he quickly stood up and thanked: "I dare not! I dare not! Eunuch Li is too polite."

He reached out and hurriedly took it, but the ginseng tea was too hot. His hands trembled. Just as Li Jingzhong let go, the ginseng tea turned over with a 'bang!', the ginseng tea fell, soaking the entire table. The secretary-in-law was so scared that he shouted repeatedly: "Damn it, I deserve to die! I deserve to die!"

"Carry it out quickly and don't ruin the manuscript."

Li Jingzhong quickly waved to several eunuchs, "Damn it, why don't you come here to help me quickly and carry the table out and clean it up!"

Several eunuchs immediately stepped forward and carried the table out. The secretary-in-law was thinking about his manuscript and did not care about listening to the brief narratives of the prince and Li Qing'an, so he followed him out.

At this time, only Li Heng and Li Qing'an were left in the study. Li Qing'an took out the invitation from King Qing from his arms and placed it on the table and said, "This is the invitation sent by Li Qiu himself just now. It was written by King Qing and invited me to go to Prince Qing's house for a banquet. I gave me a pretext for being unwell. He also said that I was in a difficult situation another day and came to ask Your Highness for instructions."

Li Heng opened and looked at it. He immediately understood what Li Cong meant and couldn't help but snorted, with ulterior motives. He smiled at Li Qing'an and said, "You have done a good job, but you don't have to be so cautious in the future. Just go to the banquet. I know your character, and I believe in you."

As he said that, he quickly wrote down an address and handed it to Li Qing'an: "It can only be done by chance when knocking over the teacup. It is inconvenient for the East Palace to speak. If you have any secret matters in the future, you can go to this address. The gold medal I give you is the token. People there will naturally transfer the letter to me."

"I understand."

Li Qing'an put away the letter, and Li Heng said to him again: "At noon today, the emperor and several prime ministers held a formal meeting for the Longyou Army reward. I also attended. I might as well reveal to you first, you may want to leave Anxi."

"What!" Li Qing'an was shocked, and he asked quickly: "I wonder where I was re-banned?"

Li Heng smiled slightly, "Don't worry, the court meeting will be held the morning after tomorrow. The court will officially announce it. I think you will be satisfied."

At this time, Secretary Wang hurried in, holding a stack of manuscripts in his hand, followed by several eunuchs carrying the table. He bowed to Li Heng and apologized.

Li Heng smiled and said to Li Qing'an again: "General Li, you just said that Anxi Han people were relatively few, with difficult transportation and inconvenient management of the court. I have recorded all these. I will talk to the emperor about your ideas. Okay! General Li, I know you are injured, so I won't keep you. Go!"

"I'm going to leave!"

Li Qing'an gave a bow and slowly retreated. Secretary Wang sat down and immediately picked up his pen and wrote: "Li Qing'an An of Anxi paid homage to the prince. Both sides talked about Anxi affairs. There were few people in Anxi Han, and the traffic was difficult, etc. The conversation was brief and then retreated."

Since Yang Zhao was dissatisfied with Li Longji at the welcome ceremony that day, Yang Zhao has been silent these days and dared not talk about Longyou in the court.

Yang Zhao is now the chief minister of Jiannan Jiedu Prefecture and the governor of Yaozhou. However, at the end of last year, Jiannan Jiedu Prefecture Guo Xu was transferred to the throne of Annan Jiedu Prefecture and had already taken office in Jiaozhou. The position of Jiannan Jiedu Prefecture has actually been vacant. The court has not appointed him for a long time. Yang Zhao was moved. The emperor is most likely to appoint himself as Jiannan Jiedu Prefecture.

His thoughts on the past two days are also on this matter. His return to Beijing to report his duties this time was to implement the position of Jiannan Jiedushi. The victory in Longyou is not important to him, at least not in front of him.

At this moment, he was discussing with his aide Linghu Fei in the mansion about the possibility of taking over Jiannan.

"The envoy, the affairs of Jiannan are nothing more than Tubo Nanzhao. The battle of Longyou Tubo was defeated and was at a disadvantage in Hehuang. They should have no time to attack Jiannan. Therefore, they believe that Jiannan's top priority lies in Nanzhao, especially last year, Nanzhao changed the king. The new king was ambitious, which made the emperor worried, so he transferred Guo Xu to Annan's guardian. This shows that the purpose of the emperor's promotion to Bashu was also to make achievements in Nanzhao affairs and lay the foundation for future appointments. As for the governor of Jiannan, his subordinates believed that it was already the envoy's possession."

Yang Zhao nodded, "Sir, it's very right, but it's not easy to handle Nanzhao's affairs well. Where should I start? Tomorrow, the emperor will ask me on this matter, how should I deal with it?"

Linghu Fei stroked his beard and smiled and said, "The envoy, dealing with foreign races has always been four words: "Give kindness and power,"

If you are obedient, give some sweetness. If you are not obedient, just slap it well. As long as the envoy says these four words to the emperor tomorrow, the position of Jiannan Jiedushi will be the envoy."

"I understand, I will say this to the Lord tomorrow."

At this time, a guard's report came from outside the door, "Encourt, the young Yin Yin of Jingzhao Prefecture, Xian Yu Shuming, has something to ask for a meeting."

Xian Yu Shuming was the second son of Xian Yu Jian, a rich family of Bashu. When Yang Zhao was in a downfall, his brother Xian Yu Zhongtong had great kindness to Yang Zhao. Now that Yang Zhao is well developed, he promoted Xian Yu Zhongtong to be a military officer in the Jiannan Jiedu Prefecture and became his confidant.

Yang Zhao was slightly stunned. What important things would Xian Yu Shuming have to look for him? He immediately ordered: "Please come in!"

Linghu Fei hurriedly said, "Then I will avoid it."

"No! Sir, please sit down."

In the past two days, things in the court were strange, and Yang Zhao did not dare to be careless at all.

After a moment, Xian Yu Shuming hurried in. This was a middle-aged man with a purple face. He was a Jinshi from the Ming Dynasty and was exhausted and became the youngest yin of Jingzhao Prefecture.

He bowed to Yang Zhao and smiled, "I'll disturb the envoy Yang."

"Where! Where! I can't even invite Xianyu Shaoyin, come! Come and sit down quickly."

Xian Yu Shuming sat down, glanced at Linghu Fei, and Yang Zhao smiled and said, "Mr. Linghu is my confidant, but Shaoyin is okay."

Xian Yu Shuming had no choice but to say, "I have a friend who asked me to ask Yang Envoy to do a favor. If the matter is done, he is willing to give a gift of 10,000 yuan and a thousand acres of land on Guanzhong."

Yang Zhao's eyes lit up, ten thousand yuan, and he almost didn't laugh out loud. Linghu Fei hurriedly gave him a wink. Yang Zhao woke up and laughed dryly, "Tell me first, who wants to ask me for help? What's the matter?"

"It was Dong Yanguang. He wanted to ask the envoy to tell the emperor about his love, and he would be spared from his crime in Longyou this time."

Yang Zhao was startled and waved his hand quickly, "No! No! I can't help with this."

Li Longji glared at him that day, and he still can't forget it. Although he coveted ten thousand coins of money, now when he was about to be promoted to the governor of Jiannan, he didn't want to make any more troubles. He could clearly distinguish the importance of which was more important.

When Uncle Xian Yu saw that Yang Zhao had clearly refused, he couldn't help but look disappointed in his eyes. He and Dong Yanguang were old friends and the two had a very good relationship. Today, Dong Yanguang came to ask him for help, and he agreed immediately. Unexpectedly, Yang Zhao refused at once. How can he answer Dong Yanguang now?

Xian Yu Shuming sighed and was about to get up to say goodbye, but Linghu Fei next to him smiled and said, "Xian Yu Shaoyin, what my envoy means is to let him consider this matter and I will give you an answer tomorrow morning."

Yang Zhao was stunned. He looked back at Linghu Fei. Seeing that there was a hint of strangeness in his smile, he yelled and said, "That's what I mean, it's important, I want to think about it carefully."

Xian Yu Shuming was overjoyed. He was afraid that Yang Zhao would regret it, so he quickly stood up and said, "Okay, I'll come back tomorrow morning to listen to the good news."

When Xian Yu Shuming left, Yang Zhao's face sank and asked Linghu Fei: "Don't you know about Longyou, can't I ask anymore? Why do you have to leave some room for him?"

"Don't be anxious, of course I know which matters is more important. I am thinking about how to turn this matter into a favorable situation."

Yang Zhao was stunned. Only then did he understand that Linghu Fei meant this and couldn't help but say embarrassedly: "I was not good at it just now, please don't blame me!"

"I won't take it to heart!"

Linghu Fei smiled and waved his hand, and suddenly lowered his voice, "Eunuch, because Li Qing'an did not attend the celebration that day, the emperor scolded the envoy. This shows that the emperor's determination to punish Dong Yanguang was determined. This was not only an explanation to the Anxi Army, but also a bribe of Geshuhan's heart. Tomorrow morning, the envoy might as well pretend to agree and ask Dong Yanguang to send the money. Then, the envoy would report to the envoy to express his determination to severely punish Dong Yanguang with righteousness. I think in this way, the envoy would think that the envoy was a person who did not favoritism and had a clear distinction between rewards and punishments. Not only did he lose points in the matter of Longyou, but he would also have a greater possibility of serving as the governor of Jiannan."
Chapter completed!